linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] vfs: Call ->sync_fs() even if s

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Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:35:34 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] vfs: Call ->sync_fs() even if s_dirt is 0 (version 3)

sync_filesystems() has a condition that if wait == 0 and s_dirt == 0, then
->sync_fs() isn't called. This does not really make much sence since s_dirt is
generally used by a filesystem to mean that ->write_super() needs to be called.
But ->sync_fs() does different things. I even suspect that some filesystems
(btrfs?) sets s_dirt just to fool this logic.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/super.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 4826540..d9759e0 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ restart:
 		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
 		async_synchronize_full_domain(&sb->s_async_list);
-		if (sb->s_root && (wait || sb->s_dirt))
+		if (sb->s_root)
 			sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
 		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
 		/* restart only when sb is no longer on the list */
-- 
1.6.0.2

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